Ep 202: Listener Crit #3
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
Pretty Woman (1990)
Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop
Love Poem by John Forbes
A Gift by Don Paterson
90 North by Randall Jarrell
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz by W. B. Yeats
Heorot by Ryan WIlson
Footloose (1984)
Secret show notes
Bodies by Drowning Pool
New Year’s: A Short Pantoum by Greg Williamson
Cold Turkey by Joshua Mehigan
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn by Ai Weiwei
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Tired by Fenton Johnston
Presto Manifesto! by A. E. Stallings
In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton
The Brand New Catastrophe by Mike Scalise
Florida by Lauren Groff
Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford
After Filing for Divorce by Chelsea Rathburn
The Soft Black Stars by Matthew Buckley Smith
Aubade by Philip Larkin
Omnibus Review of Terrance Hayes, Charles Martin, Natasha Trethewey by Matthew Buckley Smith
Frequently mentioned names:
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
